11 facts you might not know about the Sgt. Pepper cover artwork By Bill DeMain Putting Sgt. Pepper's iconic album's iconic artwork under the microscope to discover the weird, the wonderful, and what Sonny Liston thought of Ringo's drumming
How Alan Parsons took the Three Laws of Robotics and made a sci-fi masterpiece By Bill DeMain In the year of Star Wars, Pink Floyd’s former engineer Alan Parsons was creating his own barmy sci-fi masterpiece, I Robot
David Bowie's Changes: the story behind the song By Bill DeMain How a young David Bowie’s artistic manifesto was captured in the three and a half perfect minutes of Changes
Jimi Hendrix's Dolly Dagger: the story behind the song By Bill DeMain How London’s famous clock tower and a Jimi Hendrix groupie inspired his last great song, Dolly Dagger
David Bowie: how Hunky Dory was made By Bill DeMain David Bowie had everything to prove, but backed by his greatest band and produced by the engineer for The Beatles, he made his first classic album, Hunky Dory
The story behind Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel By Bill DeMain Inspired by a single line from a gospel song, Paul Simon's classic Bridge Over Troubled Water has been covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to Aretha Franklin
How David Bowie returned to orbit and made Scary Monsters By Bill DeMain After the minimalism of his ‘Berlin trilogy’, David Bowie went all out for a kitchen-sink art-rock album on Scary Monsters
The story behind Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty's Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around By Bill DeMain How a song from Tom Petty’s reject pile unwittingly became a Petty/Nicks duet, and the massive hit single that launched the Fleetwood Mac icon’s solo career
The Allman Brothers Band: a guide to their best albums By Bill DeMain The Allman Brothers Band spent the best part of 50 years ‘hittin’ the note’, with just a few clunkers. Here are some of the sweet spots of their catalogue
How Joni Mitchell made Ladies Of The Canyon and galvanised the singer-songwriter movement By Bill DeMain Released 50 years ago, Ladies Of The Canyon marked the moment when Joni Mitchell went from folk princess to pop star
The radical rebirth of Jimi Hendrix and his Band Of Gypsys By Bill DeMain In January 1970, Jimi Hendrix pulled the plug on stardom to chase a funkier, freer direction with his Band Of Gypsys. This is their story
How to buy the very best of Todd Rundgren By Bill DeMain Songwriter, producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist… Todd Rundgren's is a diverse and distinguished catalogue from a restless and progressive artist
Little Girl Lost: How Janis Joplin got dem ol' kozmic blues again By Bill DeMain Janis Joplin’s transition from band member to solo diva (including her only solo album released in her lifetime) was fraught with power plays, ego trips and excessive drug use
Les Paul: the man who invented modern music By Bill DeMain Visionary, guitar wizard and inspiration, Les Paul invented the electric guitar and drew the blueprint for contemporary music as we know it
Prince’s Purple Rain: The epic story of how it was made By Bill DeMain How reclusive genius Prince learned to play nice with others, how to rock and in the process made Purple Rain, his world-beating 6th album
The Rise Of Lenny Kravitz By Bill DeMain The record industry claimed he "wasn't black enough or white enough" to become famous - this is how the funk-rock superstar proved them wrong.
The Story Behind The Song: Space Oddity by David Bowie By Bill DeMain In a dry run for the sci-fi-tinged stardom he'd achieve in the early 70s, young folkie David Bowie wrote his 1969 alienation anthem of an astronaut lost in space
The Story Behind The Song: Heroes by David Bowie By Bill DeMain Although David Bowie’s Berlin-period anthem Heroes was initially something of a commercial failure, it became his most life-changing single
Lenny Kravitz: his six best songs By Bill DeMain Half a dozen classics from the catalogue of Lenny Kravitz
The 10 best 60s west coast rock albums By Bill DeMain From surf guitars to psychedelia, peace to paranoia, the 60s sound of Los Angeles and San Francisco was bright and multicoloured
The story behind the song: Crazy On You by Heart By Bill DeMain Wilson sisters Ann and Nancy poured their feelings about love and the fragile state of the world into a debut single that became an evergreen rock classic
The story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, founding mother of rock'n'roll By Bill DeMain Step back Chuck Berry, Elvis and the rest... and meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, one of the founding mothers of rock'n'roll
Paying tribute to the founding mothers of rock'n'roll By Bill DeMain Step back Chuck Berry, Elvis and the rest, these mothers of invention were first, mixing blues, gospel, R&B and ferocious attitude to create rock’n’roll as we know it
The Black Crowes and the making of The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion By Bill DeMain Brother In Arms: the inside story of one of the greatest southern rock records ever made, The Black Crowes Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Chuck Berry: October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017 By Bill DeMain There will never be another like the man who was an artist, a showman, a businessman and the creator of rock’n’roll